Chemical safety database gets American Chemical Society and Iupac backing
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Rebecca Trager2019-09-05T14:30:00
Library of hazardous reactions and lab near misses has found partners to develop it and help keep it afloat
A public database of hazardous chemical reactions launched in March 2017 by the US non-profit Pistoia Alliance has secured the backing of the American Chemical Society (ACS) and its Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS) – a massive index of research papers and compound structures. Pistoia created this Chemical Safety Library (CSL) as a tool for researchers to share and learn about lab accidents and thereby prevent repeat incidents, and these two new partners will develop and launch an updated, more user-friendly version of the database.